“A novel in progress doesn't have a clear, forward process. It’s messy, like a beloved, balky child.” — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
Carl Reiner particularly as a writer, a terrific writer. He's just turning out things. — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion. — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built. — George Washington Copy Share Image
My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment;… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. — Andrej Pejic Copy Share Image
Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“I think I read in at least two ways. First, by following, breathlessly, the events and the characters without stopping to notice… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing.… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says,… — Karen A. Wyle Copy Share Image
“Dan Pink talks about the importance of this in his excellent book Drive.” — Michael Bungay Stanier Copy Share Image
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer? A: Explaining what that is.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers. — Haaz Sleiman Copy Share Image
If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
“Is 'creative writing program' oxymoronic? How could you teach someone to make something new?” — Laurie Calhoun Copy Share Image
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
